Monday Morning Update 10/6/25

Top News

The Cancer AI Alliance, a research collaboration of four major cancer centers, launches a platform that securely centralizes anonymized data from its members to train AI models.

HIStalk Announcements and Requests

Most poll respondents aren’t so loyal to their doctors that they will tolerate administrative frustration.

New poll to your right or here: What health tech term is most overused? That inspired me to check my HISsies awards from 10 years ago, where I was reminded that the most overused buzzword was “big data.”

I consummated my occasional urge this week to binge my favorite finance thriller movies: “Wall Street,” “The Big Short,” “Boiler Room,” and “Margin Call.” It was either impossible or expensive to do this before rollout of ad-supported streaming channels such as Pluto TV, Tubi, and The Roku Channel.

Sponsored Events and Resources

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Uniform virtual care platform vendor Collette Health acquires the Virtual Nursing Academy, which provides education for deploying virtual nursing in health systems.

Former pharmacy chain giant Rite Aid closes its last drugstores, adding to the one-third of US pharmacies that shut down between 2010 and 2021.

People

TruBridge hires Michael Daughton, MBA (EnableComp) as chief business officer.

Lisa Dykstra, CHIME advisor and former Lurie Children’s Hospital SVP/CIO, died last week at 55.

Announcements and Implementations

England requires all GP practices to keep online consultation tools active 8 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. on weekdays, allowing patients to request appointments, ask questions, and describe symptoms without joining “the 8 a.m. scramble.” Some practices disable apps once slots fill, driving 6.6% of patients who can’t get through by phone to the ED. One practice cut appointment wait from 14 days to three, with 95% of patients seen within a week.

Sponsor Updates

• Inovalon will host its annual Empower summit November 2-4 in Washington, DC.
• Netsmart introduces its new “Voices of Care” podcast.
• Nordic releases a new “Designing for Health” podcast featuring Matthew Denenberg, MD.
• Waystar will exhibit at the PACHC Annual Conference and Clinical Summit October 7-9 in Lancaster, PA.
• WellSky releases a new report titled “Addressing today’s healthcare workforce challenges.”

Blog Posts

• Improving Referral Workflows: A Key Driver for Improving Patient Experience and Collections (Vyne Medical)
• 6 Ways Revenue Cycle Leaders Can Balance Urgency With Empathy (Tegria)
• Single-entry point: Addressing the patient record access problem in the NHS (Nordic)
• The Strategic Value of Autonomous Coding for Health Systems (Nym)
• A Q&A with Dr. Andrew Mellin on Patient Access and the Power of a Direct Connection (Surescripts)
• From Cerner to Oracle Health: Lessons on Partnerships, Governance and the Future of AI (CereCore)

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